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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    I just read that the mask does not decrease your risk of catching a virus.
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,471
    Scandinavian airline SAS stops all flights to China
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    Certain masks will. Not dust musks but finer  grade


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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    All respirators have a protection level.  Those dust mask with a single strap you can find at home depot have no specific protection level, it is not a uniform material.  Most of the regularly used in industry or 95 or 100 (for particulate matter such as aerosols from sneezing). If used correctly a respirator rated 100% has at least 99.97% filtration efficiency against solids/aerosols.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,471
    cincybearcat said:
    All respirators have a protection level.  Those dust mask with a single strap you can find at home depot have no specific protection level, it is not a uniform material.  Most of the regularly used in industry or 95 or 100 (for particulate matter such as aerosols from sneezing). If used correctly a respirator rated 100% has at least 99.97% filtration efficiency against solids/aerosols.
    The condom of mouthprotection.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478

    WHO declares coronavirus outbreak an international emergency

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/who-reconvenes-assess-latest-coronavirus-1.5445775
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    dignin said:

    WHO declares coronavirus outbreak an international emergency

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/who-reconvenes-assess-latest-coronavirus-1.5445775
    Do not click that link unless you are ready for a man to repeat himself four times. The above sentence sums it up.
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Most cold and flu viruses are picked up by touching surfaces like door knobs, etc., rendering mask useless...or compliment your mask with gloves...
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Meltdown99 said:
    Most cold and flu viruses are picked up by touching surfaces like door knobs, etc., rendering mask useless...or compliment your mask with gloves...

    Yeah- wash the hands, for sure, but also be careful where they go.  Rubbing ones eyes, finger up the nose, etc. - besides virus going airborne and into the nose or mouth, I believe all body cavities/ mucus membranes  can let in a virus. 

    This virus so far has a mortality rate of a little over 2%.  Not good, but there have been worse. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    By the end of this month, I would estimate based on the most recent CDC summary that the flu will have killed close to 10,000 people during the 2019-20 season and we have a lot of winter left in the northern hemisphere.   But news panic is always good.   It is the job of WHO and CDC do monitor, assess and prescribe action on all types of virus.   But this is not going to become a movie. 
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited January 2020
    Now it’s confirmed we have it here as well, it’s interesting to see how it spreads around the globe. Nowadays people travel so much it’s hard to isolate viruses like this in time. 
    She came here the 24 January and had been in the Wuhan area.
    How come all the confirmed cases is in the most developed countries? Is there a lot of unknown cases in for example Africa ? 
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    edited January 2020
    PB11041 said:
    By the end of this month, I would estimate based on the most recent CDC summary that the flu will have killed close to 10,000 people during the 2019-20 season and we have a lot of winter left in the northern hemisphere.   But news panic is always good.   It is the job of WHO and CDC do monitor, assess and prescribe action on all types of virus.   But this is not going to become a movie. 
    Agreed. I'm actually more concerned with the flu, as it is much more prevalent.
    2019 - 2020 stats to date from the CDC for the US:
    15,000,000 - 21,000,000 Flu illnesses
    7,000,000 - 10,000,000 Flu medical visits 1
    40,000 - 250,000 Flu hospitalizations
    8,200 - 20,000 Flu deaths
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    jeffbr said:
    PB11041 said:
    By the end of this month, I would estimate based on the most recent CDC summary that the flu will have killed close to 10,000 people during the 2019-20 season and we have a lot of winter left in the northern hemisphere.   But news panic is always good.   It is the job of WHO and CDC do monitor, assess and prescribe action on all types of virus.   But this is not going to become a movie. 
    Agreed. I'm actually more concerned with the flu, as it is much more prevalent.
    2019 - 2020 stats to date from the CDC for the US:
    15,000,000 - 21,000,000 Flu illnesses
    7,000,000 - 10,000,000 Flu medical visits 1
    40,000 - 250,000 Flu hospitalizations
    8,200 - 20,000 Flu deaths

    As I'm sure you know, Jeff, the reality is that Mother Nature is very adept at cleaning house.  But of course, we humans brought a lot of this on ourselves through overpopulation, wealth inequity (the poor die faster and harder), over-use of antibiotics, pollution, radiation, climate change, etc.  We really have done a number on ourselves.  A real shame because we could have done so much better.  Still could... maybe.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,471
    edited January 2020
    Would be better if everyone just gone vegan.  No bat-viruses or snake-viruses or wherever this came from.

    Maybe an oat-virus would be the killer of us all though. Who knows.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Would be better if everyone just gone vegan.  No bat-viruses or snake-viruses or wherever this came from.

    Maybe an oat-virus would be the killer of us all though. Who knows.

    Everyone going vegan would probably help sustain an over-population human species, but the way I see it, fewer people and fewer toxins would do more to help than everyone going vegan.  Look at the indigenous people in the American plains before European continental conquest, for example.  Their population was stable, their environment was healthy, they were healthy, and they ate a lot of buffalo burgers.  I'm more inclined to think the problem is overpopulation, excessive use of antibiotics, and pollution.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    We have recalls all the time here over tainted greens.
  • PJPOWER
    PJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Would be better if everyone just gone vegan.  No bat-viruses or snake-viruses or wherever this came from.

    Maybe an oat-virus would be the killer of us all though. Who knows.
    There are actually a lot of viruses and sicknesses that get spread through eating fruits and vegetables. And just because you won’t eat a bat doesn’t mean it won’t shit on your lettuce, ha
  • ecdanc
    ecdanc Posts: 1,814
    PJPOWER said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Would be better if everyone just gone vegan.  No bat-viruses or snake-viruses or wherever this came from.

    Maybe an oat-virus would be the killer of us all though. Who knows.
    There are actually a lot of viruses and sicknesses that get spread through eating fruits and vegetables. And just because you won’t eat a bat doesn’t mean it won’t shit on your lettuce, ha
    My favorite salad dressing. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,471
    hedonist said:
    We have recalls all the time here over tainted greens.
    Better a tainted green, than a greened taint.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    hedonist said:
    We have recalls all the time here over tainted greens.
    Better a tainted green, than a greened taint.
    (T)ain't that the truth.
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